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in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
Agreed - it seems a fairly popular Ethiopian name, why wouldn't it be Amharic?
Can't confirm for sure as I have no knowledge of Ge'ez script or Amharic, but this page on Ethiopian names gives the meaning as 'I saw much':
http://ethiopia.limbo13.com/index.php/ethiopian_names/ethiopian_names_e/
and another page on wikipedia for the name Alemayehu gives a translation of 'ayehu' as 'I have seen', as some corroboration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemayehu
Can't confirm for sure as I have no knowledge of Ge'ez script or Amharic, but this page on Ethiopian names gives the meaning as 'I saw much':
http://ethiopia.limbo13.com/index.php/ethiopian_names/ethiopian_names_e/
and another page on wikipedia for the name Alemayehu gives a translation of 'ayehu' as 'I have seen', as some corroboration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemayehu
This message was edited 10/24/2014, 10:00 AM
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I do not know Amharic either, but according to unicode tables, a dictionary and a grammar of Amharic (all on the web)
እጅግ (e-je-ge) Very
አየ ('a-ya) perfective stem for things like see, look, perceive, etc.
ሁ (hu) ist person simple past suffix, no prefix
Now, I do not even know enough grammar to figure out whether the suffix is to be applied to the perfective stem or whatever that thing is.
For people who know Amharic, how wrong did I get that?
And more interestingly, how is that for zero-knowledge scholarship with big data? Should I start marking these as ZKS :-)?
እጅግ (e-je-ge) Very
አየ ('a-ya) perfective stem for things like see, look, perceive, etc.
ሁ (hu) ist person simple past suffix, no prefix
Now, I do not even know enough grammar to figure out whether the suffix is to be applied to the perfective stem or whatever that thing is.
For people who know Amharic, how wrong did I get that?
And more interestingly, how is that for zero-knowledge scholarship with big data? Should I start marking these as ZKS :-)?
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That, or SWAG. ;-)
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